2 —Guests

Director of the FAB City project at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC), one of the initiators of the Fab Lab Barcelona project, and PhD researcher at University College of London.

Architect, program director of reSITE international festival and conference on more livable cities, editorial supervisor of professional architecture magazine ERA21. Lecturer at ARCHIP / Architectural Institute in Prague.

Freelance cultural producer, curator at the Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Centre, an independent architectural cultural institution founded and operated by young architects, artists and civilians.

Staff member at the TechSoup Foundation where she works with NGOs as an animator, coach and coordinator of social, educational and cultural projects. (Open) Data the Warsaw Way’s [Dane po warszawsku] coordinator.

Researcher on Urban Media and Citizen Empowerment at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. Assistant professor in media studies at the University of Amsterdam. Founder, together with Michiel de Lange, of TheMobileCity.nl – a research group on digital media and urban culture and design.

SensLab: Launch of the new Medialab working group

19 / 03. 7PM—9PMInstitution of Culture Katowice City of Gardens

A meeting with Tomas Diez (Fab Lab Barcelona), who will talk about the strength of the community from the perspective of the project SmartCitizen KIT, as well as the activities of Fab Lab dedicated to the exploration and understanding of the city.

Anna Widera: presentation of the SensLab group work plan, discussion on the expectations and needs, invitation to become involved in the team.

Participation is free. Advance registration is essential as places are limited (click to sign up).

SensLab is a new Medialab Katowice workgroup focused on researching and exploring the city by using the Arduino platform and broadly defined sensors. It will include not only IT and technology professionals, but also designers, activists and city researchers. The participants will learn the basics of electronics and programming and carry out their own measurements in the city space in order to use data thus collected for studies and interventions in the city. These activities are expected to provide a new perspective on the way Katowice is perceived.

Tomas Diez

Tomas Diez is a Venezuela born Urbanist specialized in digital fabrication and its implications on the future cities models. He is the director of the FAB City project at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) (http://www.iaac.net), one of the initiators of the Fab Lab Barcelona (http://www.fablabbcn.org) project, and PhD researcher at University College of London (http://www.cities.io). His research interests relate to the use of digital fabrication tools to transform the reality, and how the use of new technologies can change the way people consume, produce and relate with each other in cities.

Anna Widera

Anna Widera holds a degree in Computer Science from the Silesian University of Technology. She works as a Creative Technologist at Netizens Digital Innovation House’s R&D Department where she deals with the creative use of technology in marketing. To this end, she programmes and hacks hardware, develops prototype solutions using Arduino, sensors and servos, as well as designs custom electronic solutions. She is interested in imagination stimulating interfaces, data visualisation and iBeacon technology. She was the coordinator of Kodołamacz, a Medialab project delivered in collaboration with Netizens, where she led workshops on Arduino and the Internet of Things. She is also curates the festival of art and technology art+bits.

exhibition

Exhibition opening

Appetite for Radical Change. Katowice 1865–2015

19 / 03. 8.00PMCity of Gardens Gallery

Katowice stands out from the rest of Poland as a city defined by great dynamism and constant need for change. The rhythm of the city’s history is marked by bold visions put forward in defiance of previous achievements. Once every few decades, Katowice reinvents itself: the boundaries are moved, existing built-up areas are redeveloped, the inhabitants and their customs change. This constant flux determines the landscape of the city and its multi-faceted identity.

The exhibition is devoid the traditional historical narrative, which usually puts the focus on important historical figures, political events or wars. Instead, it uses diagrams, maps and data visualisations to illustrate the rapid transformations of Katowice. Architecture plays an important role, showing the momentum and optimism of the city’s creators, regardless of the period and political context. Thanks to in-depth understanding of data, it is possible to combat stereotypes and meet the current challenges facing Katowice, such as the development of public spaces and quality of life in the city centre.

The display is organised in a timeline sequence presenting a synthetic view the most important processes related to the demographic, spatial and economic development of the city. Thanks to this approach, a visitor can quickly understand the key historical facts and is given a broader insight into the origins of current changes. In fact, the city’s history is just an excuse to consider the future of Katowice.

The exhibition was prepared as part of Modern City in the Making. Katowice 1865–2015, a project by Medialab Katowice.

satelite event

TEMPO CLUB

Katowice Sound Department

19 / 03. 9.00PMStrefa Centralna

The Katowice Sound Department aims to revitalize the local electronic music scene through workshops, lectures and joint concert sessions. The KSD members are continuing a 2014 experiment to find a new Katowice club music sound. The workshop is designed to teach them innovative forms of sound processing and developing improvisational skills. An important element of the project is the Tempo! Club at the City of Gardens Art Gallery, designed as a meeting place to exchange ideas, hold mini-concerts and presentations of workshop results.

conference

Rediscovering the City

Registration

20 / 03. 8.30AMFaculty of Theology Building

Due to the large number of participants, please arrive no later than 8.45 and collect your conference ID tag and materials. The registration point will be located on the right side of the entrance to the University’s Faculty of Theology Building building.

conference

Karol Piekarski

Conference Opening

20 / 03. 9.00AMFaculty of Theology Building

Since 2012, we have held dozens of interdisciplinary meetings as part of Medialab Katowice, which were attended by hundreds of people from across Poland. During the various projects, we showed participants how to employ project implementation principles and digital tools to achieve the objectives relevant to different resident communities. We taught each other how to create clear and convincing narratives about the problems of the city. We did it in the belief that new competences should not be put exclusively in the hands of large technology companies. The theme of Rediscovering the City is a both result and way to sum up Medialab Katowice activities so far.

Karol Piekarski

Karol Piekarski works for the Institution of Culture Katowice – City of Gardens, is a program manager at Medialab Katowice, organiser of the festival of art and technology art+bits, as well as curator of artistic interventions in public space. He has carried out a number of interdisciplinary research and education projects involving city data processing and visualisation, such as Katowice, Open City (2012), CityLab (2013), Urban Data Stories (2014), and is currently working on a data-driven exhibition on the history of Katowice entitled Appetite for Radical Change (2015). He is also a researcher of the Web and has earned a PhD in Humanities for his work on the economy of perception and strategies for reducing information overload on the Internet.

lecture

Kristien Ring

SELF MADE CITY Berlin. Self-Initiated Urban Living and Architectural Interventions

20 / 03. 9.20AMFaculty of Theology Building

Berlin is thought of as the city of Urban Pioneers, a place where everything is possible and where space can be taken over and transformed. Voids and unused spaces waiting to be occupied, old buildings engaged with new program. The self-determined design of space, building, living and working, be it in the form of Baugruppen, co-op associations, co-working spaces or other project forms, has produced an architectural diversity and quality in Berlin over the last ten years that is exemplary. In the lecture Kristien Ring will present the condition in Berlin, explain best-practice case studies and talk about which qualities and potentials these projects have for a sustainable future urban planning.

Kristien Ring

Architect, curator and author. Principal of AA PROJECTS engaged in the production of interdisciplinary projects on future oriented themes in the realm of architecture and urban planning and currently commissioned by i.a. the German Federal Foundation for Baukultur. Kristien Ring is the author and editor of the publication SELF MADE CITY. Berlin, Self-initiated Urban Living and Architectural Interventions, (2013) and URBAN LIVING, Strategies for the future (2015, JovisVerlag). Currently Visiting Prof. at the University of Sheffield, UK, and Assistant Prof. at the TU-Braunschweig, Germany, for Architectural Design. Kristien Ring was the founding Director of the DAZ German Center for Architecture in Berlin (2004–2011), the co-founder of the gallery Suitcase Architecture (2001– 2005) and continues to curate and present exhibitions on current architectural topics. A registered architect in Germany, Kristien comes from Pittsburgh, USA and has been living in Berlin since 1991.

lightning talk

Paweł Jaworski

Medialab Lightning Talk: Katowice: Black Silesia or the City of Gardens?

20 / 03. 9.55AMFaculty of Theology Building

While preparing the exhibition "Appetite for Radical Change. Katowice 1865-2015" the Medialab team faced one of the key stereotypes about the space of Katowice. The starting point was a simple question, often asked by the residents themselves: why can’t we see green spaces in the city centre, though, paradoxically, they account for half of the total surface area of the city. A non-obvious answer was found by studying spatial data sets obtained from city administration units, Internet map services, archives and self-built databases.

lecture

Daniella Huszár

Actors of urban change – Examples from Budapest

20 / 03. 10.05AMFaculty of Theology Building

This lecture will present the activities of the Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Centre in the field of research and development and citizen participation and other initiatives from Budapest that employ new technologies to mobilize local communities.

Daniella Huszár

Daniella Huszár is a freelance cultural producer, curator at the Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Centre, an independent architectural cultural institution founded and operated by young architects, artists and civilians. The centre is currently the only internationally acknowledged professional platform representing contemporary architecture from Hungary. She participates in the initiation and development of the centre’s projects situated at the intersection of urbanism, city culture and new media.

lecture

Tomas Diez

Advanced urbanism for smarter and productive cities

20 / 03. 10.30AMFaculty of Theology Building

Tomas Diez

Tomas Diez is a Venezuela born Urbanist specialising in digital fabrication and its implications on the future cities models. He is the director of the FAB City project at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC), one of the initiators of the Fab Lab Barcelona project, and PhD researcher at University College of London. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Urban Planning and Sociology by the University Simon Bolivar, a Master’s Degree in Advanced Architecture by IAAC, and a Diploma on Digital Fabrication by Fab Academy Program from the MIT Center for Bits and Atoms, with which he works as a close collaborator in the development of the Fab Lab Network worldwide with the Fab Foundation. He is co-founder of the Smart Citizen project and StudioP52 both in Barcelona, and is the co-chair of the FAB10, the 10th international fab lab conference. His research interests relate to the use of digital fabrication tools to transform the reality, and how the use of new technologies can change the way people consume, produce and relate with each other in cities.

lightning talk

Bartosz Krzemiński

Zone Silesia: An in-depth report on the Katowice Special Economic Zone

Magdalena Siwanowicz

Open data and city to herald a revolution?

20 / 03. 12.15PMFaculty of Theology Building

Magdalena Siwanowicz

Works as a legal analyst in ePaństwo Foundation on various issues where law and new technologies are crossing each other. Magda is a member of the Open Data Team of the City of Gdańsk that enforces the Open Data Policy of the City of Gdańsk. She is also a legal advisor trainee from the Warsaw Chamber of the Legal Counsel.

lecture

Martijn de Waal

The Hackable City

20 / 03. 12.25PMFaculty of Theology Building

Increasingly we experience our cities through the interfaces of mobile and digital media. Where we go, whom we meet, what we can expect at particular locations: its the algorithms of digital platforms like Facebook, TomTom, Google who help us navigate the city and coordinate our social lives. Convenient as this may be, it also leads to a number of important questions. The city has always been an interface that spatially organized our social lives. However, now that these interfaces are increasingly owned and organized by digital platforms, to what extent does the city remain an open system? This lecture is a plea for the design of a 'hackable' city, a city whose digital platforms are open and can be appropriated by its citizens from the perspective of the common good.

Martijn de Waal

Martijn de Waal is a researcher on Urban Media and Citizen Empowerment at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. He is also an assistant professor in media studies at the University of Amsterdam. In 2007, together with Michiel de Lange he founded TheMobileCity.nl – a research group on digital media and urban culture and design. He is the author of The City as Interface. How Digital Media Are Changing the City. His current research project is called Hackable Metropolis Buiksloterham, it's a research by design project that investigates the role of digital media in the process of citymaking.

Osamu Okamura & Milota Sidorova

Ján Studený

Places in the City

20 / 03. 2.40PMFaculty of Theology Building

The structure of the city is destroyed and not clearly defined. We expect, that the city might develop in impulses coming from the environment, for which we want to prepare bases, or to implement them to our strategies. One possible strategy for city self-defence is to focus on abandoned places which are lying in front of us. There are holes, gaps, islands, unfinished projects and also points situated in central parts of the city, on the edges of its parts or running parallel with the city infrastructure. We want to target the enhancement of such empty abandoned city spots.

Ján Studený

Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava

lecture

Milica Milunovic

Ways to discover a city: urban development research in Belgrade

20 / 03. 3.00PMFaculty of Theology Building

The presentation will be focused on research methods and approaches to understanding and revealing trends behind and beneath the richness and diversity of the concurrent urban transformation in Belgrade. We will see a variety of ways for discovering, learning and ultimately transforming the city in modern-day Serbia. The presentation will give a glance into the forces that shape Belgrade’s urban environment and the people, projects, institutions and organizations behind these changes. And finally, the presentation will address BINA's role in these urban initiatives and projects.

Milica Milunovic

Milica Milunović received her Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental Biology in 2004. After a year of research field work, she went on to continue her studies an receive a Masters Degree in Landscape Architecture at State University of New York. The focus of her studies and future carrier is the synthesis of science and design with a goal of creating ecologically viable human habitats. She worked at the Landscape Studio for Ed Blake, best known for his work on Crosby Arboretum. At the Studio, she contributed to various types of projects: gardens for Mississippi Art Museum, design of 100 Acres Art and Nature Park in Indianapolis, and park complex master plan for city of Columbus, MS. In 2010, she moved to Abu Dhabi and worked for one of the main design consulting companies for Abu Dhabi City's Parks and Recreation Facilities division. At Dorsch Gruppe she had an opportunity to work on a variety of design scales: master planing for residential and commercial complexes, street design, city parks, royal palace gardens. Since 2014 Milica works for Belgrade International Architecture Week as project coordinator.

case study

Krzysztof Nawratek

Common Good University – development options for the academic campus in Katowice

20 / 03. 3.25PMFaculty of Theology Building

Krzysztof Nawratek

Dr Krzysztof Nawratek is a Master of Architecture programme leader at the School of Architecture, Design and Environment, Plymouth University. Educated as an architect and urban planner, he has worked in Poland, Latvia (e.g. for Riga City Council and as a visiting professor at the Geography Department at the University of Latvia) and Ireland (Principal Urban Designer at Colin Buchanan and researched at National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis, Maynooth). He was a member of Board of Experts European Prize for Urban Public Space 2012 and in 2014 and member of selection panel for the Polish contribution to the 13th and 14th International Architecture Biennial in Venice. Krzysztof is an urban theorist, author of City as a Political Idea (Plymouth 2011), Holes in the Whole. Introduction to the Urban Revolutions (Winchester 2012), Architecture and Urbanism of Radical Inclusivity (editor, Forthcoming Barcelona 2015), Re-Industrialisation and Progressive Urbanism (editor, Forthcoming New York, 2015) and several papers and chapters in edited books.

case study

Paweł Wyszomirski

How can maps change the world?

20 / 03. 4.10PMFaculty of Theology Building

Paweł Wyszomirski

Paweł Wyszomirski, born 1977 in Ruda Śląska, is a decided social capitalist. He holds a degree in International Relations and Diplomacy from the School of Business, National Louis University in Nowy Sącz. He has published widely in influential journals and newspapers, including Autoprortret, Gazeta Wyborcza, Arcana bimonthly, Pressje quarterly and the Polish-Slovak Illustrated Magazine "BBS". He is a coordinator of European projects and an avid public space enthusiast – an interest which led him to create the NaszaPrzestrzen.pl portal. He currently serves as Curator of TEDxRawaRiver and Member of the Board at the Fix the City DIY [Napraw Sobie Miasto] Foundation. Developer.

lecture

Artur Celiński

Smart, Creative, Slow and Sustainable city culture

20 / 03. 4.20PMFaculty of Theology Building

Artur Celiński

Artur Celiński is a political science graduate, deputy editor-in-chief at Res Publica Nowa, member of the editorial board of Magazyn Miasta and head of the DNA Miasta team. He is the initiator and member of the National Centre for Culture’s Team for Urban Cultural Policies. He is an urban activist (member of the Urban Movements Congress), expert on cultural policy and the role of culture for city development, and promoter of innovations in public policy management and implementation of public dialogue tools.

case study

Bogna Świątkowska

Bringing unused properties back to life – the outcomes of the fight for Warsaw’s vacant properties

20 / 03. 4.45PMFaculty of Theology Building

Bogna Świątkowska

Bogna Świątkowska – founder of the Bęc Zmiana Foundation for New Culture, with which she has organised a broad range of interdisciplinary projects: “New Urban Design”, “Synchronicity”, “Free / Slow University of Warsaw”, “Expectative”, among others. Propagator of young Polish art, architecture and design. Co-curator and curator of exhibitions within the project “Synchronicity” between 2008 and 2013 (“That Something on the Horizon. Architecture of the 21st century”, “Glory of the City. Promoting Cities through Architecture”), as well as many projects implemented by the Bęc zmiana Foundation: “Experiment Cannot Be Continued” (2012), “Collection of Public Art of the Capital City of Warsaw” (2012), among others. Editor of numerous books published by the Bęc Zmiana Foundation: Reduction. Microspaces, That Something on the Horizon. Architecture of the 21st Century, Experiment. A User’s Manual. Member of the Social Council for Culture by the Mayor of Warsaw. Founder and publisher of the state-wide cultural magazine “Notes na 6 tygodni”. Previously, editor-in-chief of the first pop cultural monthly “Machina” (1998-2001), deputy editor-in-chief of the weekly magazine “Przekrój” (2003). Author of numerous texts, interviews, reportages, radio and TV broadcasts devoted to contemporary popular culture.

lightning talk

Waldemar Węgrzyn & Anna Widera

The Pulse of Lublin’s Old Town

20 / 03. 5.00PMFaculty of Theology Building

Be it tourists, residents, students or commuters, the Old Town attracts thousands of people everyday with its charm and attractions. Interestingly, it is by no means a homogeneous space, intriguing its visitors with numerous street corners and hidden alleys. During three days in December, we explored different facets of the oldest part of Lublin. See the results of our urban lab project and feel the Pulse of the Old Town.

lecture

Adam Greenfield

Practices of the minimum viable utopia

20 / 03. 5.10PMFaculty of Theology Building

Adam Greenfield

Adam Greenfield is senior urban fellow at LSE Cities in London, founder and managing director of design practice Urbanscale and author, most recently, of "Against the smart city" (2013).

hackaton

Mapathon

Map of Katowice buildings

21 / 03. 10.00AM–4.00PMKatowice History Museum

Do you love Katowice and its architecture? Perhaps you have some interesting information about selected buildings? Help us describe some of the landmark Katowice buildings.

In preparing the exhibition Appetite for Radical Change. Katowice 1865-2015 on the history of the city, we created a detailed map of Katowice buildings. Thanks to the data received from the Surveying Department of the City of Katowice we were able to present the addresses and commissioning dates of selected buildings. We are currently working on expanding the range of information available within the app, such as names of architects and descriptions of buildings. The hackathon participants will volunteer a few hours of their time help us describe some of the most iconic Katowice buildings. Information sources will be provided by the hackathon partners: the Silesian Centre for Cultural Heritage and Katowice History Museum.

he meeting will be held from 10am to 4pm at the Katowice History Museum, No. 9 Szafranka Street. Admission is free. Complimentary food and refreshments will be provided.

Launch of Pischinger typeface

21 / 03. 6.30PMCity of Gardens Gallery

The meeting will be devoted to the presentation of the results of workshops led for Medialab Katowice by designer Verena Gerlach. A multi-layer typeface was created as part of Katowice Typographic Research, while the neon design workshop yielded a new neon sign to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Katowice’s foundation. The event will be attended by the typeface designer Grzegorz Owczarek, and Weronika Twardowska, who created the neon sign.

Verena Gerlach

Verena Gerlach is a type and graphic designer based in Berlin. She graduated from the Kunsthochschule Berlin Weissensee and has been running her own design studio, fraugerlach, since 1998. Verena has lectured in type design and typography in Berlin since 2003, and gives lectures and workshops about type and graphic design accross the world.

Tomas Diez

about

Tomas Diez is a Venezuela born Urbanist specialized in digital fabrication and its implications on the future cities models. He is the director of the FAB City project at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC), one of the initiators of the Fab Lab Barcelona project, and PhD researcher at University College of London. He holds a Bachelor in Urban Planning and Sociology by the University Simon Bolivar, a Master in Advanced Architecture by IAAC, and a Diploma on Digital Fabrication by Fab Academy Program from the MIT Center for Bits and Atoms, with which he works as a close collaborator in the development of the Fab Lab Network worldwide with the Fab Foundation. He is co-founder of the Smart Citizen project and StudioP52 both in Barcelona, and is the co-chair of the FAB10, the 10th international fab lab conference. His research interests relate to the use of digital fabrication tools to transform the reality, and how the use of new technologies can change the way people consume, produce and relate with each other in cities.

Osamu Okamura

about

Born 1973, Tokyo, Japan, architect, program director of reSITE international festival and conference on more livable cities, editorial supervisor of professional architecture magazine ERA21. Lecturer at ARCHIP / Architectural Institute in Prague. Lectured at universitites and institutes in Czech Republic, Germany, Austria, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia, Japan, Thailand and Ukraine. 2014 New Europe 100 outstanding challenger from Central and Eastern Europe – by Res Publica with Google and the Visegrad Fund in cooperation with Financial Times. Cooperated with Czech Radio 3 Vltava and Moravian Gallery in Brno. Official nominator of European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award – for the Czech Republic. Member of the Board of Experts of the European Prize for Urban Public Space. Expert advisor of Metropolitan Sounding Board of Prague City Council in the issues of urban development. Member of Commission for urban development and architecture in Prague 7 district. Official certifier of Register of Artistic Outputs of Czech Universities for the segment of Architecture. Graduate from Faculty of Architecture CTU Prague and Academy of Fine Arts in Prague – conceptual arts. Studied at ENSA Nantes, France. Lives in Prague.

lecture

Kristien Ring

about

Architect, curator and author. Principal of AA PROJECTS engaged in the production of interdisciplinary projects on future oriented themes in the realm of architecture and urban planning and currently commissioned by i.a. the German Federal Foundation for Baukultur. Kristien Ring is the author and editor of the publication SELF MADE CITY. Berlin, Self-initiated Urban Living and Architectural Interventions, (2013) and URBAN LIVING, Strategies for the future (2015, JovisVerlag). Currently Visiting Prof. at the University of Sheffield, UK, and Assistant Prof. at the TU-Braunschweig, Germany, for Architectural Design. Kristien Ring was the founding Director of the DAZ German Center for Architecture in Berlin (2004–2011), the co-founder of the gallery Suitcase Architecture (2001– 2005) and continues to curate and present exhibitions on current architectural topics. A registered architect in Germany, Kristien comes from Pittsburgh, USA and has been living in Berlin since 1991.

Daniella Huszár

about

Freelance cultural producer, curator at the Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Centre, an independent architectural cultural institution founded and operated by young architects, artists and civilians. The centre is currently the only internationally acknowledged professional platform representing contemporary architecture from Hungary. She participates in the initiation and development of the centre’s projects related to the intersection of urbanism, city culture and new media.

Krzysztof Nawratek

about

Dr Krzysztof Nawratek is a Master of Architecture programme leader at the School of Architecture, Design and Environment, Plymouth University. Educated as an architect and urban planner, he has worked in Poland, Latvia (e.g. for Riga City Council and as a visiting professor at the Geography Department at the University of Latvia) and Ireland (Principal Urban Designer at Colin Buchanan and researched at National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis, Maynooth). He was a member of Board of Experts European Prize for Urban Public Space 2012 and in 2014 and member of selection panel for the Polish contribution to the 13th and 14th International Architecture Biennial in Venice. Krzysztof is an urban theorist, author of City as a Political Idea (Plymouth 2011), Holes in the Whole. Introduction to the Urban Revolutions (Winchester 2012), Architecture and Urbanism of Radical Inclusivity (editor, Forthcoming Barcelona 2015), Re-Industrialisation and Progressive Urbanism (editor, Forthcoming New York, 2015) and several papers and chapters in edited books.

Paulina Sobieszuk

about

Data the Warsaw Way’s coordinator Paulina Sobieszuk is a staff member at the TechSoup Foundation where she works with NGOs as an animator, coach and coordinator of social, educational and cultural projects. She is primarily interested in activities that combine the both social and technological aspects.

Paweł Wyszomirski

about

Paweł Wyszomirski, born 1977 in Ruda Śląska, is a decided social capitalist. He holds a degree in International Relations and Diplomacy from the School of Business, National Louis University in Nowy Sącz. He has published widely in influential journals and newspapers, including Autoprortret, Gazeta Wyborcza, Arcana bimonthly, Pressje quarterly and the Polish-Slovak Illustrated Magazine "BBS". He is a coordinator of European projects and an avid public space enthusiast – an interest which led him to create the NaszaPrzestrzen.pl portal. He currently serves as Curator of TEDxRawaRiver and Member of the Board at the Fix the City DIY [Napraw Sobie Miasto] Foundation. Developer.

Steffen Fiedler

about

Steffen Fiedler is a research based designer interested in new roles of technologies and their meaning. His focus is on the perception of the machines and their hidden life – the relations we have with them and the confidence we developed. As a Design Interactions student at the Royal College of Art he is currently located in London, UK. Besides his design studies he took part in several projects and focused on giving classes and workshops teaching design by code.

Stephan Thiel

about

He's a Berlin-based designer who enjoys to experiment with technology in order to research at the intersection of computational design, data visualization and interactive experiences. In 2012, together with Steffen Fiedler and Jonas Loh, he founded Studio NAND to carry on with this research in a mix of client projects and collaborations with academic institutions.

Martijn de Waal

about

Martijn de Waal is a researcher on Urban Media and Citizen Empowerment at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. He is also an assistant professor in media studies at the University of Amsterdam. In 2007, together with Michiel de Lange he founded TheMobileCity.nl – a research group on digital media and urban culture and design. He is the author of The City as Interface. How Digital Media Are Changing the City. His current research project is called Hackable Metropolis Buiksloterham, it's a research by design project that investigates the role of digital media in the process of citymaking.

Artur Celiński

about

Artur Celiński is a political science graduate, deputy editor-in-chief at Res Publica Nowa, member of the editorial board of Magazyn Miasta and head of the DNA Miasta team. He is the initiator and member of the National Centre for Culture’s Team for Urban Cultural Policies. He is an urban activist (member of the Urban Movements Congress), expert on cultural policy and the role of culture for city development, and promoter of innovations in public policy management and implementation of public dialogue tools.

Verena Gerlach

about

Verena Gerlach is a type and graphic designer based in Berlin. She graduated from the Kunsthochschule Berlin Weissensee and has been running her own design studio, fraugerlach, since 1998. Verena has lectured in type design and typography in Berlin since 2003, and gives lectures and workshops about type and graphic design accross the world.

Milica Milunović

about

Milica Milunović received her Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental Biology in 2004. After a year of research field work, she went on to continue her studies an receive a Masters Degree in Landscape Architecture at State University of New York. The focus of her studies and future carrier is the synthesis of science and design with a goal of creating ecologically viable human habitats. She worked at the Landscape Studio for Ed Blake, best known for his work on Crosby Arboretum. At the Studio, she contributed to various types of projects: gardens for Mississippi Art Museum, design of 100 Acres Art and Nature Park in Indianapolis, and park complex master plan for city of Columbus, MS. In 2010, she moved to Abu Dhabi and worked for one of the main design consulting companies for Abu Dhabi City's Parks and Recreation Facilities division. At Dorsch Gruppe she had an opportunity to work on a variety of design scales: master planing for residential and commercial complexes, street design, city parks, royal palace gardens. Since 2014 Milica works for Belgrade International Architecture Week as project coordinator.

lecture

Milota Sidorova

about

Milota Sidorova, born 1986 in Nitra, Slovakia, studied landscape architecture, graphic design, film production, urbanism, methods of social research and human resources managment in different schools around Europe and Asia. For her, all these interests meet in the theme of the city. During one of her internships in 2011, Milota joined American landscape architect Martin Barry in the reSITE project that she still carries on. In 2012, she was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study urbanism in New York City.

Milota also gives lectures in universities across the Czech Republic and Slovakia and works as a consultant on issues of communication and marketing strategies of cities related to urban planning and civic participation.

Milota believes in popularising urbanism and urban planning and making it more accessible. That is the main reason why she has swapped her career of an architect for that of a coordinator of reSITE.

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Bogna Świątkowska

about

Bogna Świątkowska – founder of the Bęc Zmiana Foundation for New Culture, with which she has organised a broad range of interdisciplinary projects: “New Urban Design”, “Synchronicity”, “Free / Slow University of Warsaw”, “Expectative”, among others. Propagator of young Polish art, architecture and design. Co-curator and curator of exhibitions within the project “Synchronicity” between 2008 and 2013 (“That Something on the Horizon. Architecture of the 21st century”, “Glory of the City. Promoting Cities through Architecture”), as well as many projects implemented by the Bęc zmiana Foundation: “Experiment Cannot Be Continued” (2012), “Collection of Public Art of the Capital City of Warsaw” (2012), among others. Editor of numerous books published by the Bęc Zmiana Foundation: Reduction. Microspaces, That Something on the Horizon. Architecture of the 21st Century, Experiment. A User’s Manual. Member of the Social Council for Culture by the Mayor of Warsaw. Founder and publisher of the state-wide cultural magazine “Notes na 6 tygodni”. Previously, editor-in-chief of the first pop cultural monthly “Machina” (1998-2001), deputy editor-in-chief of the weekly magazine “Przekrój” (2003). Author of numerous texts, interviews, reportages, radio and TV broadcasts devoted to contemporary popular culture.

Magdalena Siwanowicz

about

Works as a legal analyst in ePaństwo Foundation on various issues where law and new technologies are crossing each other. Magda is a member of the Open Data Team of the City of Gdańsk that enforces the Open Data Policy of the City of Gdańsk. She is also a legal advisor trainee from the Warsaw Chamber of the Legal Counsel.